Friday, May 17, 2013
Grab a Powerball ticket while you're out running errands today and get in on a chance to win a $350.1 million cash payout.
Saturday night's Powerball jackpot has climbed to $550 million—the second highest Powerball prize of all time. A winner who matches all five numbers and the red Powerball can get a $350.1 million cash payout (before taxes). The Powerball drawing is held every Wednesday and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. The largest Powerball Jackpot cash payout to date was $384 million and was won in November 2012 in Arizona and Missouri. Here are some local places you can buy tickets: To find other Powerball vendors in the Philadelphia area, plug an address or ZIP code into the Pennsylvania Lottery website's retailer-locator application. The drawing takes place at 10:59 p.m. Saturday. Ticket sales for that drawing end no later than 10 p.m.; check with your local…
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Could privatizing the lottery mean fewer people will play?
Pennsylvanians do not want their lottery to be privatized, as Gov. Tom Corbett is proposing, according to a new Franklin & Marshall College Poll. The poll found that 47 percent of those polled strongly opposed the privatization with 17 somewhat opposing it. Only 7 percent were strongly in favor with 11 percent being somewhat in favor of the move. Most people polled, 75 percent, said they would play the lottery about the same amount as they do now if it were privatized, but a not insignificant number of people, 19 said they would play less frequently. The Franklin & Marshall College Poll interviewed 622 Pennsylvania voters between January 29 and February 3. The margin of error is reported as plus or minus 3.9 percentage points. A recent …
Thursday, November 29, 2012
The ticket was sold at the 330 E Lancaster Ave. Sunoco.
WYNNEWOOD–While the two winning tickets for last night's $580 million Powerball jackpot were sold in Arizona and Missouri, there's still another big winner afoot in Wynnewood. A Powerball ticket worth $1 million was sold at the Lancaster Avenue Sunoco at Wynnewood, according to a PA Lottery press release. The gas station is located at 330 E Lancaster Ave., across from the Whole Foods parking lot. The winning ticket was one of only three $1 million winners in Pennsylvania, according to the PA Lottery's website. To win the million, each player had to match five of five numbers. Another 28 players from Pennsylvania matched four of five and the Powerball, earning themselves $10,000. Another 931 players matched four of the five numbers and got…
Friday, November 9, 2012
Terms for a potential PA Lottery private management agreement are in the works, according to an e-mail from the governor's office
Editor's note: To read the terms of agreement and a document including a list of frequently asked questions about the agreement, click on the attached PDF files. The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue will announce later today the terms for a potential private management agreement for the Pennsylvania Lottery -- a deal that reportedly would call for a $150 million upfront payment “to be provided by a private manager," according to an email sent by Gov. Tom Corbett’s office. Canon-McMillan Patch has obtained a copy of the email in which Andrew J. Ritter Jr., the governor’s executive deputy secretary, said the commonwealth would retain ownership and control of the lottery. The commonwealth would continue to handle specific business …
Terms for a potential PA Lottery private management agreement are in the works, according to an e-mail from the governor's office
Editor's note: To read the terms of agreement and a document including a list of frequently asked questions about the agreement, click on the attached PDF files. The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue will announce later today the terms for a potential private management agreement for the Pennsylvania Lottery -- a deal that reportedly would call for a $150 million upfront payment “to be provided by a private manager," according to an email sent by Gov. Tom Corbett’s office. Canon-McMillan Patch has obtained a copy of the email in which Andrew J. Ritter Jr., the governor’s executive deputy secretary, said the commonwealth would retain ownership and control of the lottery. The commonwealth would continue to handle specific business …
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5:55 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Anyone who wants to support privitazation of the lottery is crazy. Outsourcing Pennsylvania jobs to a foreign company is un-American. Camelot will run away the second it's time to pay the fiddler. more ›